War Of The Worlds Analysis

Science fiction books or sci fi books not always write about aliens but when they do it almost always has to do with an alien invasion. In “Zero Hour” Ray Bradbury and “War Of The Worlds” H.G Wells both describe alien invasions on earth and how it affected the characters. Both stories were written in the early 1900’s but both portray the same idea. In both texts, alien invasions have characters that want to change life on earth and create events that ruin life in different ways.

Both Bradbury and Wells’ stories contain Martians that have a plan of invading earth but with their own way of doing so. For example, “Drill says in order to make a good fight you go to have a new way of surprising people. And they couldn’t figure a way to surprise Earth. Until, one day, they thought of children!” The author is saying that the Martians in “Zero Hour” didn’t know a way to invade earth so instead they got in contact with children since they’re more vulnerable and easier to take advantage of. Another example that supports the main idea is, “Quickly, one after the other, one, two, three, four of the armored appeared, far away over the little trees, across the flat meadows that stretched towards Chertsey, and striding hurriedly towards the river. instead of
asking children for help like the Martians in “Zero Hour” they took matter into their own hands and wiped out the down themselves without the help from anyone but themselves.

Both “Zero Hour” and The War of the World's contains events that cause destruction.
The first of evidence that supports this claim is, “Ka Krake Fa Booom” All the events in the story including the disappearing yo-yo didn’t convince the adults it was just a game so it led to the explosion if they knew it was more serious and payed more attention the signs it wouldn’t have led to an explosion. Similarly, “The houses caved in as they dissolved as its touch, and darted out flames; the trees changed to fire with a roar.” What the author is showing in this event is that it started off when they invaded their small town with batteries. Soon after it led to the Martians using their heat ray to burn through their town
instantly.

In both texts both central ideas are Martians who want to take over earth. In “Zero Hour” the martians used children to lead up to the attack. In “War Of The Worlds” the martians didn’t need help they went out straight away and got it done. Both authors show invasions that take over earth and change life on it.